EP0555252A1 - Process for manipulating microscopically small dielectric particles and device for implementing the process. - Google Patents
Process for manipulating microscopically small dielectric particles and device for implementing the process.Info
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- the invention relates to a method for handling microscopic dielectric particles according to the preamble of claim 1, and to an apparatus for performing the method.
- the particles are to be held in defined positions without contact, with simultaneous manipulation, for example rotation about defined angles and axes.
- a known method for handling small dielectric particles is dielectrophoresis.
- the particles are exposed to an inhomogeneous electric field which polarizes the particles asymmetrically.
- the particles are moved in the direction of the higher or lower field strength and collect at the corresponding electrode. With alternating electric fields, batches of different types of particles can be separated.
- the electric field generally has curved field lines. Since the particles are moved along the field lines, straight-line transport over longer distances, for example in channels of microstructures, is not possible.
- a high-frequency hiking field exercises on it in a liquid .
- he conductivity suspended particles from repulsive or attractive forces which are due to the fact that the interfacial charges induced by the electric field in the particles remain behind the migrating field vector.
- the movement of the particles can be made very flexible by moving fields with uniform, changing or multiple traveling frequencies.
- the particles can be kept contactless in an electrode-free space.
- the particles following the traveling field are additionally guided electrically, via field inhomogeneities. This is achieved in that static or alternating inhomogeneous fields are superimposed on the traveling field.
- the transport channel for the particles can be limited to a narrow area. This method is particularly advantageous if the particle transport is to take place through microstructures.
- a narrowing of the transport channel can also be achieved according to claim 3 by mechanical limitations such as trenches or ramparts, with which preferred raceways for the particles are created.
- Typical values for the traveling frequency of the electric fields and for the applied voltage, with which good results are achieved, are given in claim 4. With a particle diameter of a few 10 micrometers, particle speeds of up to several millimeters per second can be achieved.
- a device for carrying out the method is characterized in claim 5.
- a multi-electrode system is applied to a base body, the individual electrodes of which are arranged approximately perpendicular to the direction of expansion of the wandering fields.
- the extension of the electrodes in the direction of the traveling fields is of the same order of magnitude as that of the particles to be handled.
- the distances between the electrodes are also of the same order of magnitude.
- the electrodes are synchronized with high-frequency, traveling fields. shaped, changing or several traveling frequencies. As a result, the particles are set in motion either in the spaces delimited by the electrodes or above the electrodes.
- a particularly high degree of flexibility in particle movement is achieved with a device according to claim 6.
- the branching specified there permits particle deflection in a selectable direction and thus represents a switch for a particle stream.
- the electrodes are of rectangular design, the long sides being many times longer than the transverse sides.
- the electrodes are arranged equidistantly so that the longitudinal axes are parallel to each other and the direction of the traveling field is perpendicular to the longitudinal axes.
- the particle movement takes place across the electrodes, perpendicular to the longitudinal axes of the electrodes. It is particularly suitable for the separation of particles according to their running properties, which are influenced by the passive electrical properties and the size of the particles.
- the electrodes are interrupted in such a way that the remaining partial electrodes each represent a separate path for the traveling field or for the particles in different directions. In this way, a particle switch is implemented, in which the particle movement takes place over the electrode surfaces.
- two rows of electrodes include an electrode-free channel, which runs in the direction of the hiking field.
- the moving particles can either be centered in the center of the channel or moved along the wall formed by the electrodes.
- This arrangement can also be further developed to a particle separator in that the electrodes are increasingly offset on the outside. In the region of the electrode-free channel which is widened in this way, additional electrodes are attached in such a way that the channel is branched.
- the electrodes form closed circular tracks which are equally spaced around a center. A recess, an opening in the carrier material or an elevation can be formed in this center. With this device, particles can be transported to the center or to the edge via electrodes, depending on the direction of travel of the high-frequency field.
- the particles can be moved in the resulting electrode-free channels.
- the particles can be guided from different quadrants of the electrode ring system to the center and can be guided away from it in a desired direction.
- a particularly flexible micromanipulator for handling microscopic particles is made available, which is particularly suitable for working with living biological cells.
- many electrode systems are applied to a base plate which is designed as a thin membrane.
- the thin membrane is broken through in areas of these systems so that the particles can flow through these openings.
- the particles can only pass through the openings if they are carried in the direction of the centers by the moving high-frequency fields. In this way, the device is a controllable semipermeable membrane.
- the electrodes are formed as ellipses * ⁇ 1-shaped webs which are arranged around a ge common focal point.
- the device is suitable for centering and decentring particles, the decentration not being radially symmetrical but increasingly in preferred directions.
- a device according to the invention for focusing and separating particles in a circular chamber is characterized in claim 16. At least four electrodes are arranged in a ring around a circular chamber. Depending on their dielectric properties, particles are collected in the center of the chamber or deposited on the electrode surfaces by means of a circular field generated with the aid of the electrodes.
- the depressions and elevations in the region of the channels are preferably produced with the aid of etching processes.
- the process steps used there can advantageously be used by using materials which are customary in microstructure technology for producing the base body. Since the extension of the electrodes in the direction of the traveling field is comparable with the size of the particles to be handled, the electrodes are preferably structured and galvanically molded using photolithographic methods. Electrode thicknesses of a few ⁇ m to a few hundred ⁇ m can be achieved. With this method, it is readily possible to successively increase the height of electrodes arranged one behind the other, so that particles can move out of the surface. Since the electrodes are exposed to the suspensions, chemically inert materials are preferably used for their production.
- a particularly advantageous development of the device according to claim 20 is that the multi-electron system is integrated on a common base body together with the circuit for generating the electric traveling fields and for evaluating the particle movement.
- the device can be encapsulated.
- a cover plate made of a material customary in microstructure technology is connected to the base plate, for example by adhesive technology or by anodic bonding.
- This plate can also have electrodes and / or troughs and channels.
- the advantages achieved by the invention are, in particular, that particularly flexible handling of microscopic, dielectric particles in the micrometer range is made possible.
- the particles can be moved contact-free through narrow channels on straight-line paths, they can be brought to different destinations by particle switches and held there for contact-free examinations.
- Particles can be focused and defocused and sorted according to their dielectric properties.
- the method according to the invention and the device according to the invention are suitable for use in biotechnology, in the field of molecular separation, focusing and microtransport technology. They are just as suitable for handling artificial particles as they are for living cells.
- FIG. 1 shows a device for the linear movement of particles over electrodes
- FIG. 2 shows a particle switch for branched movement over electrodes
- FIG. 3 shows a device for the linear movement of particles in an electrode-free space
- FIG. 4 shows the control of the electrodes of a device at four successive times
- FIG. 5 shows a device for focusing particles in an electrode-free space
- FIG. 6 shows a particle switch for branched movement in an electrode-free space
- FIG. 7 shows a device for the spatial focusing of particles
- FIG. 8 shows a device for centering and decentering particle particles
- FIG. 9 shows a device which is designed as a semipermeable membrane
- FIG. 10 shows a device with an elliptical electrode arrangement
- FIG. 11 shows a device for focusing and separating particles in a circular chamber.
- FIG. 1 shows an arrangement of 12 elongated electrodes el.l to el.12, which are arranged one behind the other in such a way that their longitudinal axes are parallel to one another.
- the arrow E indicates the direction of the field strength vector.
- the movement of the particles 1 takes place via the electrodes el.1 to el.12 perpendicular to their longitudinal axes in the direction of the arrows V.
- the electrodes have a length of a few hundred micrometers and a width of approximately 10 micrometers and are spaced approximately 10 micrometers apart. With an electrode voltage of 10 volts and a traveling frequency of 0.2 to approx. 10 megahertz, particle velocities of several millimeters per second are measured with particle diameters of 20 to 70 micrometers. The particle movement is very asynchronous to the traveling field, approx.
- FIG. 2 shows a particle switch in which the particles migrate over the electrode surfaces as in the previous exemplary embodiment.
- the first five electrodes are interrupted in a central area such that an electrode row I with the electrodes el.la to el.5a and an electrode row II with the electrodes el.lb to el.5b is created.
- a particle 1 which moves towards the electrode branch is either guided over the electrode row I or the electrode row II, depending on whether the electrodes el.la to el.5a or the electrodes el.lb to el.5b with a voltage be charged.
- the device shown in FIG. 3 has two rows of electrodes el. 1 to el. 12, which delimit a channel 5.
- the particles 1 are moved in the direction of arrows V by the field traveling in the direction of arrow E in the electrode-free space of channel 5.
- the electrical activation of the electrodes el.l to el.12 is shown in FIG. 4, the signs of the voltages with which the electrodes are applied at the four successive times tl to t4 being indicated.
- FIG. 5 shows that the device explained above is also suitable for focusing and holding particles.
- a dispersion of approximately 5% dextran water spheres with a diameter of less than one micrometer is placed in channel 5 in 50% n-propanol.
- a traveling field E of 1 to 15 V and a frequency of 800 kilohertz are applied to both rows of electrodes, the dextran water spheres are moved between the electrodes and each enriched in the center of two pairs of opposing electrodes, so that they form clearly visible drops 1 join together.
- the visible drops 1 are held in the positions shown.
- FIG. 6 shows a device with an electrode arrangement which allows a branched movement of particles in the electrode-free space.
- the electrodes of the two electrode rows Ha and Ilb are increasingly offset in the central area, so that a wide channel is formed. Another row of electrodes I is attached in this channel. The length of the electrodes of this row I increases in accordance with the offset of the outer row of electrodes, so that two channels of constant width arise which open into one channel.
- punctiform electrodes 2 are arranged at the branching point. Depending on whether the traveling field is generated by the electrode rows I and Ha or I and Ilb, the particles are guided through the corresponding channel. The running direction of the particles can also be determined by controlling one or the other additional electrode 2.
- a first pair of electrode rows II and IV and a second pair of electrode rows I and III are arranged perpendicular to one another in such a way that they delimit a three-dimensional channel.
- the particles 1 can be collected and held in this channel in the free space of the liquid medium which is located between the electrode rows I, II, III and IV.
- the device is also suitable for the linear transport of particles.
- FIG. 8 shows a device according to the invention for centering or decentering particles.
- the electrodes el.l to el.6 are circular sector-like, concentric and equally spaced around a work space 7 in four quadrants I to IV in such a way that they delimit two channels 10 and 11 which are perpendicular to one another.
- the particles 1 can be transported via the electrode surfaces or in the electrode-free channels 10 and 11, depending on the direction of travel of the high-frequency field, into the work space 7 or away from the work space 7. With suitable control, the particles can be transported from one quadrant across the work space to any other quadrant or to one of the channels.
- This versatile micromanipulator is particularly suitable for working with living biological cells.
- the electrodes can be designed as closed, ring-shaped tracks.
- FIG. 9 shows a device in which many concentric, ring-shaped electrode systems are applied to a thin membrane.
- the membrane has through openings in the central areas of the systems. Small dielectric particles can only pass through these openings if they are carried towards the center by the traveling high-frequency fields. In this way, the device acts like a controllable semipermeable membrane. Optionally, all or only certain openings can be switched to pass or block.
- the electrodes are designed as elliptical tracks el.1 to el.3, which are arranged around a common focal point so that their major axes lie on a straight line. Particles 1 are transported into or away from the central region 3 by a traveling electrical high-frequency field which moves towards or away from the common focal point.
- the device shown in FIG. 11 has four rectangular electrodes el.l to el.4, which are arranged in a star shape around a central area 3. In this device, the electric field circulates in a circle. The device serves to separate and focus particles.
- a dispersion with two types of particles for example cellulose sulfate spheres 12 and living yeast cells 13 in water with a conductivity of 50 to 100 ⁇ S / cm, is introduced into the system and exposed to a rotating field of approximately 2 megahertz, then the Cellulose sulfate beads 12 collected in the center 3 of the device, while the yeast cells 13 migrate to the electrode surfaces and adhere there.
- two types of particles for example cellulose sulfate spheres 12 and living yeast cells 13 in water with a conductivity of 50 to 100 ⁇ S / cm
Abstract
Selon un procédé de manipulation de particules diélectriques de dimensions microscopiques, les particules sont exposées à un champ électrique. Selon des procédés connus, les particules sont exposées à des champs électriques inhomogènes et sont polarisées par ceux-ci. Les particules polarisées se déplacent dans la direction où l'intensité du champ est la plus élevée. Ces procédés ne permettent pas de renverser le sens de déplacement des particules. Les particules s'enrichissent au niveau de l'électrode, de sorte qu'elles ne peuvent pas être retenues dans un espace libre. Selon le procédé décrit, les particules sont exposées à un ou plusieurs champs de haute fréquence se déplaçant dans des directions prédéterminables, de sorte qu'une force est exercée sur les particules qui les met en un mouvement fortement asynchrone par rapport au champ. Un dispositif de mise en oeuvre de ce procédé permet de manipuler des particules avec beaucoup de souplesse. Des électrodes agencées en ligne ou en cercle permettent de déplacer les particules sur des voies linéaires dans toutes directions voulues ou à travers des microstructures ramifiées; elles peuvent être triées selon leurs propriétés diélectriques et retenues sans contact. L'invention trouve des applications sans le domaine de la biotechnologie et des techniques de microtransport, de focalisation et de triage moléculaires.According to a method of handling dielectric particles of microscopic dimensions, the particles are exposed to an electric field. According to known methods, the particles are exposed to inhomogeneous electric fields and are polarized by them. Polarized particles move in the direction of the strongest field strength. These methods do not make it possible to reverse the direction of movement of the particles. The particles become enriched at the electrode, so that they cannot be retained in free space. According to the described method, the particles are exposed to one or more high frequency fields moving in predetermined directions, so that a force is exerted on the particles which sets them in a strongly asynchronous motion with respect to the field. A device for implementing this method makes it possible to handle particles with a great deal of flexibility. Electrodes arranged in a line or in a circle make it possible to move the particles on linear paths in any desired direction or through branched microstructures; they can be sorted according to their dielectric properties and retained without contact. The invention finds applications outside the field of biotechnology and molecular microtransport, focusing and sorting techniques.
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